CM. Ward Quotes

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development

There is an army of waiters in this world.

Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The dog is the god of frolic.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Never excuse yourself.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Sorry to bother you,” Bella said over the wailing. “But she wants her daddy.

The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Only the person who risks is truly free

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.